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  • It was not the monks or the chiefs who civilized the Dane, but the Irish slavewomen who nursed his sons.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • For inasmuch as it is most architectonic and authoritative and the other sciences, like slavewomen, may not even contradict it, the science of the end and of the good is of the nature of Wisdom (for the other things are for the sake of the end).

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • It was not the monks or the chiefs who civilized the Dane, but the Irish slavewomen who nursed his sons.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Saw how Fishy's mother had shunted her off on other slavewomen, because she could hardly attract the master's lust with a baby clinging to her thighs.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • From that night on, Cavil Planter's slavewomen had no peace.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • If a warrior be wounded in the head or the neck, his injury is bathed clean and examined by the slavewomen.

    Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976

  • Rethel had been wounded previously but he had a fresh injury in his stomach, and there was much blood; surely it pained him greatly, and yet he showed only cheer, and he smiled and teased the slavewomen by the practice of pinching their breasts and buttocks, and often they chided him for causing their distraction as they attempted to bind his wounds.

    Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976

  • Also there was Rethel, youngest of the warriors, who sat upright in a corner and was attended by slavewomen.

    Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976

  • From this I took as the meaning that each of the warriors of Buliwyf had selected some woman who would die for him upon the funeral pyre, and this woman they treated with more courtesy and attention than the others; for they were visitors to this country, and had no slavewomen of their own who could be ordered by kin to do their bidding.

    Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976

  • Now this also I learned: that each of the warriors of Buliwyf had chosen from among the slavewomen one whom in particular they favored, although not to the exclusion of others.

    Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976

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